Snow

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Fiction
ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR
The Washington Post Book World, The Economist, The Village Voice, San Jose Mercury News, The Boston Globe, San Francisco Chronicle, Newsday, Chicago Tribune
"A great and almost irresistibly beguiling . . . novelist. . . . [Snow is] enriched by . . . mesmerizing mixes-, cruelty and farce, poetry and violence, and a voice whose timbres range from a storyteller's playfulness to the dark torment of an explorer, lost."
—The New York Times
An exiled poet named K a returns to Turkey and travels to the forlorn city of Kars. His-ostensible purpose is to report on a wave of suicides among religious girls forbidden to wear their head scarves. But Ka is also drawn by his memories of the radiant Ipek, now recently divorced.
Amid blanketing snowfall and universal suspicion, Ka finds himself pursued by figures ranging from Ipek's ex-husband to a charismatic terrorist. A lost gift returns with ecstatic suddenness. A theatrical evening climaxes in a... Tovább

Fülszöveg

Fiction
ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR
The Washington Post Book World, The Economist, The Village Voice, San Jose Mercury News, The Boston Globe, San Francisco Chronicle, Newsday, Chicago Tribune
"A great and almost irresistibly beguiling . . . novelist. . . . [Snow is] enriched by . . . mesmerizing mixes-, cruelty and farce, poetry and violence, and a voice whose timbres range from a storyteller's playfulness to the dark torment of an explorer, lost."
—The New York Times
An exiled poet named K a returns to Turkey and travels to the forlorn city of Kars. His-ostensible purpose is to report on a wave of suicides among religious girls forbidden to wear their head scarves. But Ka is also drawn by his memories of the radiant Ipek, now recently divorced.
Amid blanketing snowfall and universal suspicion, Ka finds himself pursued by figures ranging from Ipek's ex-husband to a charismatic terrorist. A lost gift returns with ecstatic suddenness. A theatrical evening climaxes in a massacre. And finding God may be the prelude to losing everything else. Touching, slyly comic, and humming with cerebral suspense, Snow is of immense relevance to our present moment.
A major work . . . conscience-ridden and carefully wrought, tonic in its scope, candor, and humor . . . with suspense at every dimpled vortex. . . . Pamuk [is Turkey's] most likely candidate for the Nobel Prize."
—John Updike, The New Yorker
From the Golden Horn, with a wicked grin, the political novel makes a triumphant return." —Harper's Vissza